All US Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE

  “Little known”?

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I assume that’s sarcasm?

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      ¯\(ツ)/¯

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This is a good time to remind everyone that most of the problems with using SSNs for security is because at no point during design or implementation was it supposed to be used as a private thing.

  It was supposed to be as common and easily accessible as your name.

  It’s just when it’s started, it wasn’t listed anywhere publicly yet

  So third parties just started treating it like it was a secret, and eventually it had enough momentum that the government just went with it.

  We don’t need to just give people new numbers, we need a new system with both a public identifier and then some kind of secure system.

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